The Cochrane & Allied Families
Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.
Bethany, Brooke, West Virginia, USA
Notes:
1797 - Brooke County was formed from a portion of Ohio County, Virginia, USA.
1848 - Hancock County formed from a portion of Brooke County, creating Brooke County's present day boundries.
1863 - During the US Civil War, an area of western Virginia, including Berkeley County, that sided with the North as opposed to Virginia, applied to Congress for admission into the Union as a separate state from Virginia. Congress approved the request with one condition, that the new state abolish slavery. President Lincoln signed the West Virginia statehood bill and on June 20, 1863, West Virginia became a state in the United States of America.
Latitude: 40.205556, Longitude: -80.556944Matches 1 to 3 of 3
| Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Birth |
Person ID | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 Apr 1877 | I602 | |
| 2 | 21 Dec 1874 | I600 | |
| 3 | 26 Aug 1873 | I599 |
Matches 1 to 2 of 2
| Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Death |
Person ID | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 Jun 1897 | I580 | |
| 2 | 4 Mar 1866 | I579 |
